Hello all

[irowiki]

half a second, I'm just a autochondriac.

Curious, my 87 FWD also diesels for .25-.5 seconds. Trying to figure out what it is, I think the "Car off" solenoid on the carb is acting up.

[drege]

Well it just had a catastrophic failure, wen't to reverse outta my driveway and must have hit 4th somehow, it acts like its stuck in 4th, no oter gears will work, not even in 4wd, and oddly enough when in 4wd EL the transfer case does not pop EL into neutral.
Got the console off in the street to see if there was something I could do, seemed nothing so I had to hold the clutch in while pusing it back up my driveway.
Anybody got any good ideas aside from dropping the trans, dissembling it and removing it from 4th by hand?

[drege]

opened selector knuckle housing to no avail. bout to put it up on blocks and see what ittle take to get this out.
Such is life.

[irowiki]

Almost sounds like what is going on with my wagon that we bought with a blown transmission already.

Shifter looks like it is in second, but it flops around freely to all positions, and you have to clutch it to move it.

[drege]

Gonna try again to figure out my blazer and probably drive it out to reno, I expected something to happen to the TTsr5, just not this.
It goes into 1st simultaneously with 4th, and reverse, but not 2nd or 5th, but no grinding or clanging, the shifter still has all of its proper positions and operation its just the internal gear shafts are stuck in 4th, I imagine that the shift fork for 4th broke, as 3rd position is dead space.

[xirdneh]

there are many things that go wrong in the trannys
yours may be the synchro Detents (aka shift keys)
when they fall out of place shifting becomes a problem and getting stuck in a gear is one of them
you will have to take the tranny apart to find out and or fix it
thats just the way it is

[drege]

Yall think I got blown ring/s or blowby?
This is the throttle body of my S10.
Cleaning and replacing gaskets/O-rings.

[drege]

Am I crazy? I wanna do my terc up to look like a Japanese crown police car, godda admit they'd have made great little (most) all terrain cruisers if the japanese cops thought to use them, but IU'm sure they'd probably have used landcrusers/prerunner-hilux

[irowiki]

We had an idea to paint up a tercel like the inspector gadget car!

[drege]

So my gearbox is draining, everything looks A-O-K from the outside, from what goddolovem gave me saturday I'll swap one in and hook up the minimum components to ensure it works and then reassemble 100% - Some things I'm finding different from my experience with Jann_E_Gun's tranny drop is I have 3 wire plugs over his 1; I suspect that one of the extras is the 4x4 indicator light, and maybe the other one is the EL light?!?
Gonna price a clutch 50% for the alignment tool and 50% cause my adjustment thingy under the clutch pedal is self adjusted out to max!!! that old dude said it had a new clutch, maybe it was 60,000 miles ago though, cause that pedal only disengaged the pressure plate within the 1 3/4 inch from the floorboard, I just chocked it up to "every car is diffrent" NO, it's at its mechanical limit!!!
So with my front dif drained too, remind me the full capacity of this drivetrain when its completely reassembled? I suspect this will be about 50$ worth of gear oil - Drain plug showed beautiful fluid, like new. when I cracked the case on my bench what came out looked like the metal flake paint that some people will have their cars sprayed with, dark brown and shimmering with metal shavings.

After this all though I'll meticulously disassemble my transmission and one other and see whats up, when all is said and done I plan on rebuilding all three of these, I feel like I can use parts from non 4WD tercel trannies; gears, forks and synchros - and whatever else, Suppose I'll need to pickup a micrometer for this eventuality - wonder how pick-n-pull will feel when I come up to the purchasing counter with a bucket full of gears and shift forks? 'Price these parts genius!'

[drege]

Are clutch sets tricky for these, or are they as common as the 2WD versions?
I'm looking at oriley's 104$ PowerTorque (local)
Autozone 99$ duralast (local)
Napa 147/115$ store brand (local)
Advanced 107$ Perfection Clutch (online only - not local)
Rock auto 69/125$ multiple brands (assume not local to the bay area)
and summit parts ranging from 91$ all the way to crazy purple ones for 2,000$ so never mind them and their asshattery, its not a race car.

Only napa and advanced account for 4x4 models. no one else does.

[dlb]

the manual transmissions take 4.1 L of gear oil but remember: when you put it in, the rearmost drain plug must be undone 7-8 turns. after you get all 4.1 L are in, then do up the rear drain plug.

[irowiki]

4.1 quarts of gear lube

Rockauto should have the clutches?

All the internals on the 4WD transmission are specific to the 4WD and 2WD versions of it, and you can't use stuff from other models. New syncros/etc are getting scarce as hen's teeth.

[Gottolovem]

I have had trouble with Oriley having part #s wrong in their boxes especially on clutches.
I would get ot from a local supplyer and take your old one with you verify they match.
I have never had a napa part fail on me.
I have had an Oriley pressure plate fail within the first 6 months.
I WAS NOT HAPPY to do it twice even if under warranty

[drege]

I have had trouble with Oriley having part #s wrong in their boxes especially on clutches.
I would get ot from a local supplyer and take your old one with you verify they match.
I have never had a napa part fail on me.
I have had an Oriley pressure plate fail within the first 6 months.
I WAS NOT HAPPY to do it twice even if under warranty

RIGHT!!! thats how it was with my audi, dude at napa gave me a company statement that it was the right clutch, 215$ and it didn't work (input spindle hole was larger than the shaft) was only cause it was the 4000 CS model, and those are like our 4WD terc's, pretty rare.
I used to trust checker/schucks/kragen, now as oriliey's they are the butt of most education/parts supply jokes.